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Indonesia is home to two of the world's last surviving tropical glaciers, which are found near the top of a 4882 metre mountain in Papua Province. The glaciers used to cover much of the Surdiman mountain range but they're disappearing…
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This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, for their work in optogenetics, a method for controlling nerve signals with light. Their research began by…
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October 4, 2026 · 2 min

This week's mystery caller towers above its fellow wetland species – the Black-necked Stork.
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This month on Sunday Intrigue, Jeremy Dicker, managing editor of International Intrigue, looks back at Switzerland's referendum on whether to enshrine a strict definition of neutrality in its constitution. And Brazil goes to the polls for…